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Originally Posted by TheUnforgiven
Hi all,
have been seeing a lot of complaints from people that fucknut ICA officers like to exact their prejudice on single South East Asian women who are looking to enter into Singapore by refusing entry at the checkpoints, often WITHOUT any reason.
Although the reason behind this is to control influx of prostitutes to enter our shores for purposes of solicitation, I have heard of stories where they are just being singled out for being from these SEA countries, and have been refused entry without any proper justification and reason given.
Often, these cheebye arrogant and rude ICA officers would claim that they are not obliged to provide the reason for refusal to grant entry. Let me set the record straight once and for all.
TheUnforgiven.
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That may be true in the past but in the present context your accusations are unfair to the ICA officers manning the checkpoints. Nowadays these ICA officers do not have the discretion to 'pass or deny' visitors entry into Singapore. They are guided by the computer screen which will show 5 colour codes when your biometrics and/or particulars are scanned or keyed in.
Red - on the wanted list (detain subject)
Brown - on the blacklist (no approval)
Orange - has previous records (interview subject)
Yellow - person of interest (give short term visit or interview for longer visit)
Green - all clear (approved)
All ICA staff manning the checkpoints have to follow the codes in whether to grant / deny entry and they are answerable for their actions. Gone are the days when they can use their "discretion" on whether to give you 3 days or 14 days as they like.
Technology is so advanced nowadays that images are transmitted "real time" back to ICA HQ if any of the officers encounter any problematic cases at the checkpoints. And yeah and that includes the interview room which is fully recorded whatever happens inside.